Eortes: a Greek name-day app that cannot go stale
A third project. I have been building a Greek Orthodox name-day and fasting app for the diaspora and for Greece. It is called Eortes. The build runs on my own phone; the store listing is being prepped. This is the short version of what it is.
The idea
If you grew up Greek, the question is the question. Who celebrates today. Forgetting your aunt's name-day is the kind of mistake a family remembers.
Every existing app for this rots. Wrong fasting day, stale movable feasts, developer moved on, 1-star average. Eortes is built so it cannot rot: there is no backend, and the calendar is computed on the phone from the date of Pascha each year. If I never push another update the calendar is still correct in 2035.
What it does
Today's date, the day's fasting in plain language, the names celebrating, a search ("when does this name next celebrate"), a month view with fasting colour-dots, the Αργίες (public holidays), and a private list of your people with one-tap reminders. Bilingual Greek and English. Offline. No ads. The reminders unlock with a small one-time payment; no subscription.
What's left before launch
One blocker. The name-day table is currently a high-confidence skeleton, with every entry flagged for verification. I am walking it against the church Synaxarion before launch. A wrong fasting day is the one fatal mistake for an app like this.
Soft launch in Greece first, then the wider diaspora. No waitlist; the store listing will be the announcement.
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